Sketches

Friday, 8 February 2013

Diomira

Diomira.

Leaving
there and proceeding for three days towards the east, you reach
Diomira, a city with sixty silver domes, bronze statues of all the
gods, streets paved with lead, a crystal theatre, a golden cock that
crows each morning on a tower. All these beauties will already be
familiar to the visitor, who has seen them also in other cities. But
the special quality of this city for the man who arrives thereon a
September evening, when the days are growing shorter and the
multicolored lamps are lighted all at once at the doors of the food
stalls and from a terrace a woman’s voice cries ooh!, is that he
feels envy towards those who now believe they have once before lived
an evening identical to this and who think they were happy, that
time.

(from Italo Calvino, "the invisible cities").

This drawing was made with ink, scanned in and then totally digitally painted using GIMP (open source Photoshop).

This way of digital painting was a first time for me, and it took a while to know how to handle the program and brushes. Still a long way to go.